[2] Ribeiro managed to win the Nürburgring round dramatically after favorites Bruno Giacomelli and Marc Surer retired from the race.

Then, in 1979, the fellow Brazilian Fittipaldi team offered him two chances to qualify a second car, for the Canadian and American Formula One Grand Prix.

In 1994, he joined the Brazil national football team as a pastor at the FIFA World Cup in the United States.

[3] At the 2000 Monaco Grand Prix, Ribeiro crashed her Medical Car at the Tabac curve before Saturday morning practice, and passenger doctor Sid Watkins broke three ribs.

During the morning warm-up on race day Sunday, Enrique Bernoldi crashed his Arrows in Turn 2.